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Trump Rages As Prosecutors In Hush-Money Trial Estimate Two More Weeks Needed To Finish Their Case – Update
Jeffrey McConney took the stand on Monday.
The company’s chief financial officer called McConney into a meeting in January of 2017 — the month of Trump’s inauguration as president — and presented him with a bank statement from Cohen that also contained handwritten notes and dollar amounts from Weisselberg. McConney spent three hours on the stand — over numerous defense objections — combing through invoices, emails, Trump company ledger entries, tax forms, and a government ethics filing as he was questioned by a prosecutor and then a defense lawyer about the payments to Cohen, which were billed by the company as legal work covered by a retainer agreement between Trump and Cohen. Weisselberg — who is serving a jail sentence on Rikers Island for perjury in connection with a civil case against Trump — never told him what specifically the payments were for beyond what he saw on the bank statement, McConney testified.
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